Information Disclosure

kernel-rt is vulnerable to information disclosure. The vulnerability exists as the vccrecvmsg function in net/atm/common.c does not initialize a certain length variable...

SuSE 11.3 Security Update : Linux kernel (SAT Patch Numbers 7991 / 7992 / 7994)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 3 kernel has been updated to 3.0.82 and to fix various bugs and security issues. The following security issues have been fixed : - The chaseport function in drivers/usb/serial/ioti.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service NUL...

CVE-2013-3222

CVE-2013-3222 affects the Linux kernel: the vcc_recvmsg function in net/atm/common.c does not initialize a length variable, enabling a local attacker to read sensitive data from kernel stack memory via crafted recvmsg/recvfrom calls. The condition is “before 3.9-rc7”; the implication is a local i...